Xref: utzoo comp.arch:11305 comp.org.decus:395 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!lsheldon From: lsheldon@cup.portal.com (Laurence Larry Sheldon) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.org.decus Subject: Re: 25th Anniversary of 36 Bits Message-ID: <21951@cup.portal.com> Date: 7 Sep 89 16:35:24 GMT References: <428@pp.ACA.MCC.COM> <3624@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 5 Must be talking about _DEC_ 36-bit machines. I pretty sure UNIVAC and probably 1BM and maybe others had 36-bit machines before 1959. Come to think of it USE is almost 35 years old, and it (besides being the oldest user-group on the planet) was formed around--what--1107's?